How My Life Changed Once I Started Reading (A Business/Youtube Story)
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Zach : Life is short, so let's talk fast.
Gotta watch it at 2x speed
Or hit it with the 0.75 speed for normal talking
I'm not a native English speaker and I don't think he speaks fast.
This channel will be big. Not enough people explain careers and college at the level this channel does.
nearly half a million subs...
this aged well
simp
This aged well, 1 mill subs and counting
@@repeatrepeatrepeat 1.14 mill now.
Nothing kills the joy of reading like being forced to write about what you're reading, hahaha :(
Can relate
From experience, it's the overlapping of doing both that fucks reading as a hobby. I started reading after high school, and its just getting more and more great
not for me!
@@Brutally_Honest666 yes but some learn that way. Some won't bother to learn at home or read it so it's the only way for now. I mean do you have a better way?
I just want to say I like how you're smiling in this video. It makes this channel feel even more welcoming.
Thanks to you, i stopped being lazy and you actually motivated me! I stopped watching youtube for 8 hours a day and started reading books for at least 5 hours daily! THANKS A LOT MAN!
Teach me your ways LOL
@@jakemartinez9597 same I need to do this. Well tbh im quitting now and today might be my last day of foolin around
Thank you. I'm a Computer Engineering student, and it's because of your videos.
Chris' Book Reviews Me as well!
darrylkid Awesome. What year are you?
I'm actually still a junior in high school, but MajorPrep helped me make a final decision to major in Computer Engineering. I'm not trying to be cliche when I say this, but this channel seriously changed my life.
Chris' Book Reviews how’s it going
darrylkid I see you’re now an engineering student, pretty cool
I've really enjoyed your channel since I started going back to College after 20 years. This is one of your best videos, since we finally get to see how you got to this point on CZcams.
This Channel is very helpful!
I've already watched most of your videos, and they have helped so much. It answered so many simple questions that no one could answer, and now I know the right answers to ask when I transfer. Thank you for being such a big help!
You truly inspire people. Continue creating great content. All the best!
This video is so inspirational and motivating. I'm happy for you man, keep striving. And also love your vids
I know exactly what i want to do in school, computer science, I still I find you channel unbelievably helpful/interesting, thanks!!!
Thanks for the video! Never stop working on your CZcams channel, You have really helpful and interesting content.
I definitely feel like you about my current high school books. I’m in my final year of school and planning to go to university next year. Watching this video has really inspired me to expand my knowledge and read more books for leisure purposes. Cheers from Australia!
And just look how big your channel is now! You are an inspiration. Congrats!!!
There’s certain channels, that you feel that the creator puts his spirit into every component of their work. You are one of those channels. You haven’t changed my life or anything like that, but it’s such a plus to watch your videos and understand and think about what I like and what I’d hear into if I chose a certain career in STEM. So thank you thank you thank you tons tons tons, you really are a shiny bright one in all of the CZcams channels.
Your videos are so helpfull. You have given me so many direnctions to take in engineering. Keep up the great work.
Another awesome video man, very informative and inspiring. It’s been cool to see you gain subs from back when I first stumbled onto one of your videos when I was looking for content like yours, to now you have almost 60k subs and your still growing. Thanks for the content and I can’t wait for you to have more success. Stay positive bro and you will continue to be successful.
Thanks Spencer!
You are right, here I am helping on Patreon and in 2020
this is awesome. love ppl who are supporting of each other, specially through the educational route. Also, love people who have taken the time to realize there is more to the world, to society and have the courage to seek it for themselves and show others how to be better human beings.
I subscribed to many science channels, but until last week that youtube suggest yours to me. I was amazed by what you did and now I'm very exciting sharing your vid to my friend
prop's to you man, its awesome seeing someone who made it though collage and have a clear idea of what they want to do. these videos are inspiring me to take the risk of studying engineering even if its not what I end up doing I know i'll learn a lot from it and use it to help me in the future.
The first seconds are just straight up me, really needed the motivation to start again as well
Good luck on your journey I look forward to watching more of your videos!
Your content is amazing, is really helpful and enjoyable, thanks :D
Hi Zach, I’ve followed your channel now for a couple of years, and I’ve really enjoyed your content. I just saw this video today for the first time, and I really enjoyed seeing how much your channel has grown since you posted it and how enthusiastic you were about making these videos. Congrats on your success from an appreciative subscriber. :)
Your channel has helped me alot, so thank you
I'm inspired. This gives me some hope about some of my ideas now. Thx!
Good job man keep it up, love watching stuff that I'm also interested about !
And three years later you passed 1 million subscribers. Congratulations, it’s well deserved!
You have helped me so much and I love the content. Thank you Zach 🙏
I really like that the business you’re growing helps people rather than sell them stuff they don’t need.
This channel needs to be given attention for sure. not clickbaiting shit. pure knowledge. from physics to maths and now from maths to business ... Before studying i always watch one of ur vds lol and then gets fired up to become a great engineer xD good luck
I'm currently in college for IT and programming but I have been strongly considering going for a degree in applied mathematics at some point in the future as well. Your "Math Major" videos were very enjoyable and helped me understand the subject a little better. For that, I thank you.
I too have been trying to read more. I have difficulty staying focused, so it's a bit of a challenge but I know it will be worth it.
You should start a blog and/or go to Goodreads or Amazon and review books. It is one of the most enjoyable things to do, especially as a critic, and also publishers and authors eventually reach out to you to review their books. Reviewing is one of the best ways to help authors out. You can even do reviews here on your channel (if you haven't done so already).
Yes, reading totally transforms your life and continues to impact your life as you go on in life. I've been reading almost all of my life but now as an adult, I'm getting textbooks on all kinds of subject matter and teaching myself. I still read my self-help books and fiction (yep, huge historical fiction fan) but I'm learning just how life-changing textbooks are! Reading rocks! Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for this channel.
Laely I have been looking for some books that help me reach my full potential, so this is a great video for me, thanks for the recommendations!
Thanks for sharing bro. That’s encouraging
Quite the journey you’ve taken! Congrats 🎉
5:58 oups, I remember leaving my computer this video in loop on this video .. :)
I hate the fact that this is not going viral ,thanks so much
Sir you really are a champ. I picked EE but you gave me reassurance to my degree. I cant wait man. You motivate me to learn even more after i do get my diploma. You help so many people brother. Godspeed
i love your passion. great videos. good luck
I tell you what you are helping many people and very informative
Sick guy! I needed the computer engineering vid it rlly helped
@FAT cat Nah Im frm toronto mate lol
This is really wholesome
The video feel like speeds up by 1.5x, you sure are the one of the most passionate man I have encountered.
2 years later, the channel has more than 500k subscribers and videos with more than 1M views , that's so well deserved, I hope it keeps growing and more people can be helped by you
Thank you for Presenting the power of Reading to Innovate
Great video and advice like always!
Kenji!! Haha hope you’re doing well man.
3:04 most businesses outsource this. Much easier and can get up and running sooner than trying to code it yourself.
I many countries there is a lot of politics going on around this subject. The real estate agencies don't want it to be transparent and easy because that would undermine their profit margin. Both apartment searchers and landlords need to be kept in the mist as much as possible. But I think as soon as Facebook or Google or another big player makes a good app the party will be over.
Hey, I love your videos and the information you distill into them.
Just a word of advice for your future videos.
You appear to move your hands when you talk.
If this is the case, just for future reference, put your hands in frame with the rest of your upper body.
It’ll give the jerky movements of your shoulders context. ✌🏼
Again, I love your context!
Keep it up! 👍🏼
Thanks for the advice! That’s actually something I’ll try cause I definitely agree. Trying to feel more natural in front of the camera.
MajorPrep
No problem, I love CZcams and the variety of content you can find.
I’m going to be starting college for biochemistry, but I’ve always wondered about getting into science communication like on CZcams.
I’ve looked into things like The Great Courses Plus, because my technical and computer skills are lacking.
It’s a fantastic tool and resource for self teaching skills like videography, editing software, and all kinds of other information!
Great stuff Major Prep.
Totally agree, I moved from reading between 0 and 1 book in the past 3 years, but this year I changed my mindset and started reading a lot, 8 books already done reading, and hope I can get to 20 - 24 by end of the year, and I just can't explain how much i've grown this lasts few months, i've acquired new social skills as well as knowledge in many areas. I'm definitely buying some of your recommended books on amazon!
From your comment you just seem to focus more on quantity than on to actually make stuff happen you know like....getting a job??Reading books is ok(most of the time) but getting hooked into thinking that you actually accomplished something when in fact you only just completed a book it's dangerous.
louie s You are right, maybe I putted too much emphasis on quantity. In reality quantity doesn’t matter specially when you start to forgive things from the books because of the huge amount you have read, that’s why I’m making lists with stuff I need to remember from the books and I’m practicing everyday, also at the end of the day I try to review my whole day and realize what could I have done better. I’m seeing some real change, I was recently promoted at my job and I will be leading my own team soon enough, I wouldn’t have achieved the promotion, and the idea of leading my own team would scare me as hell if it wasn’t for knowledge and social skills I acquired from reading and developed from practice.
Thank you for your comment, made me reflect, and reading again my previous comment, you are completely right, is totally misleading on what really matters.
I feel the same way about reading. I am bad at English associate reading with failure. It is really good that books can make you view things differently.
A video about the grades, gpa, number of ap classes, etc in order to get into top tier schools like Harvard, Stanford, MIT.
I'm from India and not good in English. But I always tried to learn something new. When I saw your video on on topic of differences between various branches of engineering, differences between normal graduation courses and engineering. Your videos are different from other youtubers, whom I saw before you. It satisfied me then I subscribed your channel. Love you from India ♥️♥️♥️
Guess I'm on my way. I have or at least noticed most of the books shown. Going to have to get on that programming and business side tho haha.
Here’s a way i used when reading books , i taked notes of everything i find veryy useful and made a copy book just made of Important notes of every book and after reading bunch of books i remember everysingle one using this technique
Did you read MJ Demarco´s second book Unscripted? It´s similar to the millionaire fastlane, but it emphasises some major components more clearly
absolutely, ordered that the second I heard he made a new one. Always will be an MJ fan.
Deep Work by Cal Newport is definitely a great read!
ok been following your vidz they so cool new sub here
good luck, mate :)
this is a very good video, I love to read. 😎
quality content 💓
Mechatronics engineering might be a good one to do a video on
Oh hey i read that book you had open in the thumbnail recently
make a video on what you currently do and your future plans
Very much informative, a detailed video... Keep going sir 🙂
I have a feeling you got the idea for an apartment rating website from The Millionaire Fastlane. For those of you who don't know, MJ DeMarco, the author, talks about how he created a website for renting limos; also, he talked about how he got books to learn how to code HTML.
thank you i enjoy watching your video
Thank you !!
Thank you for recording this video! I have been doing some research on CZcams and I have found many people with similar stories. For me reading is helping me to find my passion and try to make it profitable. I have studied marketing and journalism but I am reading lot of books about e-commerce and I am finding a very interesting topic to start to invest some money into it. Do you know something about this business?
Zach, you''ll be a Star.
This video is really inspiring
Tears came to my eyes when u mentioned The Millionaire Fast lane, special book indeed...
nice vid dude
Thanks a lot for your help zach, this is very meaningful advice. I've thought about reading books but I don't think I have the resources to do anything interesting with whatever advice they could give me. I still have 2 and a half years of school left (MechE) and I think a lot about what I would be able to do once I graduate. It's a very haunting feeling because I feel pretty useless. Nonetheless your videos are great and they help me gain perspective.
Just try reading and see what happens, even if you feel you can't do anything with it. You'd be surprised at how different you feel after reading something like mindset, deep work, awaken the giant, and so on.
MajorPrep thanks yeah, I've been told I need to change my mindset a lot but that feels like trying to stop the rain with your hands. Thanks for the help and keep the videos coming. :) I'll check these books out.
@@Soundillusions94xyz one step at a time. Any updates from you?
i dont know what to major in computer science and engineering or mechatronics really a hard choice... watched all your videos related to this topic but still couldnt decide
I'm a senior now and I am thinking about what I wish to do with my life and the most appealing one was computer engineering however, at my current stance I feel doubtful about it because.. I'm not a hotshot at math and I know that is a necessary still to master in. I feel at a loss because I don't know if I'm up to it, I'm not a quiter when I grab that determination to not quit yet, I feel as if pursuing this will have me to fall into failure. It's hard to figure out what I truly feel about all this.
I was in an honors English class where we were told to read chapters as homework, over analyze what was written in class, and complete other assignments that sapped all joy from the books. We were also tasked with reading Scarlet Letter, nobody read the book. Literally no one. Everyone used spark notes but me.
I simply didn't do my homework and was failed into a normal math class.
In out normal math class, our teacher had us read in class and quizzed us with simple questions at the end to make sure we were actually reading. We did talk about the books, but we didn't overanalyze them like pretentious a holes.
I got so far ahead in the books that I missed a question because it was something I read a week prior.
Also the books were good.
Also also, we watched FULL METAL JACKET.... I'm high school!
Failing honors English allowed me to appreciate books. And we read good books in that English class too.
Thank You :)
I feel like another important read is The Will to Change by bell hooks
You are a real awesome man
As an aspiring polymath, reading is a second nature to me, I try to read physics(engineering), Psychology, Chess(practise endgame etc), music(composition and piano) and Mathematics(working on my own problems that I don't know if solution exist for, only solved 2 so far), from monday to friday, tough work but rewarding.
Super!
Great books! Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is amazing haha. Other good books are Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, and Mindset. One of my all time favorites is Unshakeable by Tony Robbins. If there’s anything you get from that book, it’s page 24 :) I bought the audiobook for the Elon Musk Autobiography by Ashley Vance and that book was so inspiring! Definitely a favorite. Now I’m starting the Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman audiobook lol. Reading can be enjoyable when you read books about things that your interested in
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Weirdly I've felt like when I go back to reading a lot, I actually seem to get better and sharper at everything else, my engineering coursework included. Never liked self help much, always found novels helped me more with introspection. (I am also 22 and really have little idea what a stock is)
I don't know why am I always Zombie reading. I can't understand any book!
Upon seeing the thumbnail,I thought u were going to review the book Deep Work by Cal Newport. But u didn't. Well what r ur thoughts on the book.
I will suggest something please try to make a video on engineering physics there are no videos on that but many wanted to know about that ..if you can make please try ..😊
Great!
I wonder, how do you choose what books to read?
Magic treehouse were absolute legendary books
reading through books or pc or kindle . which best?
Cool!
Could you do a video of the polisci major?
Zach, the problem I face is of starting off reading a book and then never really finishing the entire thing. I get occupied with other stuff. So in the end I only get the gist of it and not the whole content.
How have you dealt with that problem?
Once you start reading some books you see a pattern and it's all the same bull##it like "just work hard" and blah blah.They don't even put in equation the fact that not everybody has the IQ,the financial comfort(because working your ass off and being worried about rent and bills won't help you concentrate at what you like)and the environment to make it possible.It's just so easy to give advice when you are not in the position of someone who is having a hard time.
can you make a video on bioengineering please
if you want job security dont, my opinion
Yuriy Dovhan why?
employment opportunities are not that big, many engineers at times struggle to find a job, to my knowledge in us theres arount 20000 biomedical engineers and around 1 mil electrical and mechanical engineers, watch Aaron Clarey, hes an economist and he wrote a book "worthless" which states anything bio, is a rubbish degree, the only viable premed option is chemical engineering
Magicntreehouse!!!!! Ayyyyyy
I mastered trading derivatives but not the ones u know in calculus but in the financial mkts
7:42" wouldn't it be more meaningful if I was making these videos at 1 million subscribers"
Guys, he made it